It’s quite amazing how fast time flies, isn’t it? I started this blog exactly a year ago today, and I can’t believe it’s already been that long.

When I first started I wrote for just myself and a few guildies might stop by and have a look now and then (usually after a lot of prodding). Now a year later I’ve discovered the entire blog universe of WoW bloggers and I’m so grateful to be part of that community.

The Road So Far

When the blog first started it was called Girls Don’t Play WoW – not to advertise that I’m a girl, but rather because I find it such a silly statement. It was ironic I guess. In any case, as the blog grew I outgrew the name because it did kind of imply some sort of female perspective, which – other than being of the female persuasion – I don’t really provide.

So I changed the name to Spellbound in early 2011, a name (and domain) I’ve owned for years for various purposes. Don’t ask me why, but I love the word “spellbound”, and that’s why I initially bought the domain. I hadn’t even started playing WoW yet when the domain became mine.

When I started writing my main was a Warrior and I wrote some posts with some tanking tips and that you should respect your tank!

But I’ve always been writing general things about everything between why we can’t have nicer looking characters to alt adventures.

I got into the Cataclysm Beta and did some reviews on the starting zones, but I never did finish it since everyone (including me) got a bit sick of all the Cataclysm huff. Information overload.

As Cataclysm was nearing I finally decided to go back to my Warlock as my main since tanking was too stressful for me. I’ve since become a Warlock blogger (still with a lot of general discussion though).

I even tried my hand at some comics, from the Warlock side of things.

The Numbers

I’m admittedly a complete noob and didn’t even install any stats for my blog until the move to Spellbound in 2011, so I don’t know the stats on hits/visits before that.

Number of posts: 155
Number of comments: 1 420
Visits since I started tracking: 16 315
Most visits ever in one day: 504

My most visited page (other than the home page) is my Warlock Guide with 4 616 visits.

Sadly I lost some comments when my blog decided to take a day off and self-destruct some time ago – but I think the stats are fairly correct.

20 Days of…

I never thought that my challenge would take off the way it did. I’m amazed at how many people are currently, or have been, taking part in this.

I’d like to thank every single one of you for participating. It’s so awesome to see everyone’s posts, and I’m only sorry that I’ve not been able to keep up and comment on everyone’s entries.

I’ve tried to keep up to date on who is participating though, and the list has been updated; so please check out the other participants here!

The Challenge

It appears to be tradition to offer something on your anniversary, and since I’m no skilled artist (though I’d have loved to draw people’s characters I’m afraid it would have taken me another full year to complete it), I will have to stick to the topic suggestions.

So, if you would like your very own personal topic suggested by yours truly.. eh, yeah.. Post a comment and let me know!

I can’t promise that they’ll be good – but I’ll do my best to find you something. (Writing about pine cones is a totally valid topic, right?)

Trying to get the site back up… *sigh*

Updated: The site is back up, but the database had been over-written so I’ve lost all comments since the 1st February 🙁

Managed to get the posts from a cached Google version so I’ve added them back. The ones prior to 1 February were okay since I still had them saved on the old site. But anything since then I’ve had to re-add manually, and of course no comments since I couldn’t get those from the cached version.

I still have to update About and My Characters to a new version and work a bit on the Widgets, but I’ve been at this for hours and will take a break now.

Also, sorry for the spam you may have received in your Feedreaders as I was adding the posts back in!

First of all, I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year – and I hope that you’ve all had a great holiday period with your friends and families.

You may have noticed that there’s been few updates here the past week or so, there is a reason for this.

My ISP has been down for 1 week. Yes, a whole week – and I have been given no estimations on when it will be back up again. I hope soon, but I’m not holding my breath (which is good since it’s already been a week I’d be dead).

I’ve gotten my hands on a mobile internet but it’s quite honestly crap. It’s been giving me 6500 ms in WoW which means I haven’t so much been playing WoW as I’ve been staring at the screen as my character tries to move. For minutes. Only to eventually get kicked out of the game. Or quit out of sheer annoyance since my character is doing nothing.

Today has been worse than usual. I’m not even able to load most websites, it took me about 5-10 minutes to load this one and I can only hope that it will actually let me send the post.

It’s such an inconvenient time for this to happen too. I actually had some time off between Christmas and New Year’s and I wanted to spend at least some of it doing Heroics and gearing up for raids. With this connection (or none at all) I think we can all agree that hasn’t been possible.

I hope I get proper internet again soon because I want to read other people’s blogs as well as manage to write and upload here.

In the meantime, a toast to a new year that will hopefully bring us lots of dead raid bosses and epic loots as well as many a fun time with our friends.

Happy New Year

Edit: Turns out that actually posting this post was too much for my mobile internet and it gave out for the night, so I’m sneakily posting this from work.